Positive and negative entropy production in thermodynamics systems

TL;DR

This paper explores the theoretical possibility of thermodynamic processes with both positive and negative entropy production, challenging traditional views and revealing unusual entropy couplings.

Contribution

It introduces a heuristic approach combining local and global second law formulations to suggest the existence of novel thermodynamic processes with unconventional entropy behavior.

Findings

Proposes the theoretical existence of processes with negative entropy production

Identifies entropy couplings that exhibit unusual thermodynamic behavior

Challenges conventional thermodynamic principles

Abstract

This article presents a heuristic combination of the local and global formulations of the second law of thermodynamics that suggests the possibility of theoretical existence of thermodynamics processes with positive and negative entropy production.Such processes may exhibit entropy couplings that reveal an unusual behavior from the point of view of conventional thermodynamics.